Month: July 2009

This headline from Bloomberg: Harvard Law Tells Students: Don’t Panic Over Jobs, Try Richmond. I can only imagine the comparable headline out of New Haven: Yale Law Tells Students: Don't…

Paul Caron is up to more of his blog service work, posting his quarterly blog traffic rankings.  These rankings list the top 35 law professor blogs in terms of visitors…

From The Telegraph: China has outlawed the use of electric shock therapy to treat internet addiction, after a scandal at a hospital in the Northern province of Shandong.   Internet…

Two days ago, Pennsylvania State Senator Vince Fumo (from Philadelphia) was sentenced on 137 fraud (and fraud-related) counts.  Among other things, he was convicted of defrauding the PA Senate and a non-profit for…

Having wrapped up my two summer courses earlier in the week (the UCC never takes a vacation!), I looked around for another challenge (perhaps something just a bit less daunting…

Via Starpulse Entertainment News.  I kept waiting for this story to make its way into a mainstream media source so that I could blog about it.  It never did.  But…

This morning's New York Timesbrings the sad news that Kenneth M. Stampp, a towering figure in American history, has passed away.  Stampp was best known for his 1956 book The…

The Wall Street Journal has posted some of its archives on the 1916 nomination of Louis Brandeis to the United States Supreme Court.  See here, here, here, and here.  (Photo…

Elizabeth Nowicki has an interesting series of posts over at Concurring Opinions (see here, here, and here) about race and gender discrimination in legal academia.  One intriguing question she poses…

Via Calculated Risk, who gets credit for the excellent headline.  FOX Business reports: Yet I could not resist asking Wells Fargo Bank NA why it filed a civil complaint against…